The Homo predator in Borneo
“Borneo, a place where birds no longer sing and orangutans are homeless.” Alex Shoumatoff “Man has made the Earth hell for animals.” Arthur Schopenhauer Those of us who belong to the species Homo sapiens owe our name and surname to our two main characteristics: we are human, [...]
Solar energy, a big bet against climate change
Solar energy is one that uses light or heat from the sun to generate electricity or produce heat. Photovoltaic solar panels convert sunlight into electricity through a process called photoelectric. There are millions of people who already use electricity generated by solar energy. The world is aware of the [...]
Why is there so much talk about energy and climate change?
On this planet, the only one with life that we know, the wide biodiversity that inhabits it is born, lives, grows, eats, sleeps, reproduces, attacks, escapes and dies using energy in all these stages. We live in a wonderful planet in which biochemical energy differentiates us from all other [...]
Traces of the Anthropocene
Two and a half million years ago the Homo habilis, sitting on the wooden log of a tree fallen in the Olduvai gorge, Tanzania, Africa, did not take his eyes off something that with his clumsy hands he was handling. They were a pair of pebbles and with them, [...]
Single-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination GallerySingle-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination
Anthropocene, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Green Climate Fund, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Soils, Sustainability, Water
Single-use plastics at amazing levels of contamination
Today Earth Day is celebrated, as it has been done every April 22, since 1970. This year the theme that has been chosen is that of contamination with plastics due to concern about the subject. Plastic pollution is the accumulation of products of this material in the environment, which [...]
The electric car and the thriller of the year 2020 GalleryThe electric car and the thriller of the year 2020
Air, Anthropocene, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Electric Cars, Energy, Environment, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Solar Energy, Sustainability
The electric car and the thriller of the year 2020
By using clean energy instead of fossil fuel, the electric car is the most effective tool to meet the main objective of the Paris Agreement, such as limiting the increase in global warming to 2°C from its pre-industrial level. For this, the transcendental document indicates that greenhouse gas (GHG) [...]
You will not kill a tree
A couple of nights ago I was watching with my wife one of these homes improving and decoration series. I was half sleepy when suddenly I was startled to see a big lot full of logs. Obviously, it was not the first time I saw something like that. The [...]
Wind Power, unlimited, clean and efficient GalleryWind Power, unlimited, clean and efficient
Air, Anthropocene, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Forest, Global Warming, Green Climate Fund, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Soils, Sustainability, Wind Power
Wind Power, unlimited, clean and efficient
The main objective of the Paris Agreement is to limit the increase in global temperature to no more than 2°C, from its pre-industrial level, by the end of this century. To achieve this key objective, greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced until they are completely eradicated. Through the premise “Zero fossil [...]
Pioneers of Climate Change
At all times and in all sciences, there have always been visionaries, those people who anticipate situations long before other persons can glimpse them. This is the case of Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier (1768-1830), a French mathematician and physicist, who in 1824 calculated that an object the size of the [...]
Global Warming or Climate Change?
There are still those who confuse these two phenomena, which, although very different, are closely related to each other, as they are to the greenhouse effect. We must bear in mind that the three correspond to the natural conditions of our planet for millions of years. Thanks to them, [...]
Fracking fever, a real threat to Paris Agreement
The failure of the Paris Agreement would be the failure of Homo sapiens. If we do not reverse the increase in global warming and we do not support sustainability on our planet, we will all be losers. There are clear indications that we are going in a opposite direction [...]
Summary and Conclusions of the COP23
The curtain has fallen on the stage that gave place to the twenty-third “Conference of the Parties on Climate Change”, held between November 6 and 17, 2017, in Bonn, chaired by Fiji. The German city facilitated the space, infrastructure and part of the organization necessary to carry out the [...]
Past, present and future of the electric car or how the green car can save the planet GalleryPast, present and future of the electric car or how the green car can save the planet
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Past, present and future of the electric car or how the green car can save the planet
A crisis of faith Somebody who has been writing about environmental issues for more than a decade may have a moment of deep doubt, something like that believer who has ever felt that God has turned away from him so much that he even thinks that the Creator does [...]
How to be an activist of Earth and not dying in the attempt GalleryHow to be an activist of Earth and not dying in the attempt
Anthropocene, Carbon Footprint, Climate Change, COP and Climate Conferences, COP25 Chile 2019, Energy, Environment, Forest, Global Warming, Paris Agreement, Pollution, Sustainability
How to be an activist of Earth and not dying in the attempt
It is to be recognized that in the last ten years attention has been increased on such important issues as global warming, climate change, elephant killings or the Paris Agreement, but there is also much to be done. For example, a short video of a poor lady falling down some [...]
What are hurricanes and how do they relate to global warming
There is no evidence on the relationship between hurricanes and global warming, but there are some suspicions based on certain facts There are mixed views on the relationship between global warming and hurricanes. So far, no evidence has been found to support this relationship. Whenever there is [...]